Duel Firestarters

[Jonyna Si]

D A N T O O I N E
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It had been too long since she had sparred with the self proclaimed 'jedi brat'. Admittedly, last time had been a bit of a disaster due to her own hubris, but he'd grown significantly in the last few years, as did she.

It was a bit of senedipity that she was doing this on Dantoonie, her own stomping ground.

It was no Ryloth, but it held memories.

Jonyna looked to Braze across the grassy field with a smirk. That signature cocky smile she held.

"You ready this time?"

 

[Braze]

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“I am ready,” he said, twirling the two blades as they sparked to life with cold blue arcs. He stepped back, settling into an oddly graceful Niman-style stance, his right hand forward.

 

[Jonyna Si]

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Jonyna stood, eyes studying Braze with every movement.

She knew not to underestimate the padawan. Or at least, that's what she knew him as. She surmised he was a knight at this point, but she hadn't asked up until now.

For now though, she wanted to test him. From her coat, her tail whipped out with her stun blaster, firing two rounds out towards him.

 

[Braze]

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Braze gently offered a few fluid arcs in a languid ease offering a simple form three reply to the little stun bolts sent his way. "Oh... Are we doing non conventional fighting tactics? I thought you wanted to saber practice..." He mused through he seemed to remain calm as if they attack were nothing more than the typical response he would expect form a training remote. His eyes never left her face not even bothering to track the motion of her attack as if he just knew some how what direction they would come from naturally.

 

[Jonyna Si]

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"Do you expect a sith lord to play conventional?" Jonyna asked casually, as she held her hands at her side, waiting for the moment to draw a blade. Her tail slipped into her coat, as if to say he had passed the test. "Show me what you got, kiddo. I can take it."

 

[Braze]

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"Why's everyone always jump to extremes?" Braze huffed with a sigh, which might have been ironic.

Maybe he just wanted to have fun with training every now and then, but everyone was always so serious.

"I expect Sith Lords to hurl legions of undead armies at me, or send some over-enchanted bantha-fodder artifact army my way because they're too afraid to fight little old me themselves, so I think the point is kind of moot."

Braze gave a small shrug, twirling his blades in a lax, playful manner.

"They're so afraid of everything, they wall themselves behind mountains of resources and junk... Really makes me so scared of them."

 

[Jonyna Si]

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"You and I fight very different opponents." Jonyna joked, before her tail slipped out and fired her stun pistol, not waiting a second after before charging. At the last moment, she drew Sally, the cortosis blade this time very squarely aimed at Blaze's saber rather than his body.

She wouldn't make that mistake twice.

 

[Braze]

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"I guess so," he shrugged, as he stepped forward to meet her blade gently, but in a manner that shifted briefly to push the line of attack slightly off course. Seemingly, he just took the stun bolt this time, letting it wash over his shoulder.

His vision swam, and his muscles tried to lock up, and yet somehow he moved despite the pain. His body did not give out all at once as he tried to reach out and prod at her side beneath the extended arm with the second saber.

 

[Jonyna Si]

TAGS: Braze​

Jonyna watched as the cortosis blade met his, tilting her head slightly as it met and deflected it. Noted. Braze has learned since last time.

She watched the stun pistol hit his shoulder, and made note of that as well. Instead, she pushed the advantage, shoving forward with her sword to lock him in the bind, and use her own weight against him.

"You're improved since last time."

 

[Braze]

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Jonyna's pressure drove him back a step, then half another; his boots slid where his heels had dug in, tearing marks through the grass beneath him. His shoulder still burned from the stun bolt, and the muscles in his arm started to betray him.

Trying to match the strength of an Amazonian warrior like Jonyna would have been a prideful, foolishly vain attempt rather than any true display of skill.
"Yeah… well," Braze muttered, breath tight, though a small crooked smile found it's way on to his face. "I can't let you embarrass me forever, can I?"
Braze sank lower beneath the bind, yielding a little deliberately letting her weight push into the space he had already abandoned.

Then he shifted his foot and attempted to guide her momentum past him, turning her strength into forward motion. A small grunt of effort slipped from him as he angled his saber, trying to catch and turn the line of her blade aside while he was forced to move, dipping under and toward her flank. He stepped past and turned to face her once more, his arms trembling from the strain, a faint wince caught in his narrowed jade green eyes.

"You're heavier than you look." Braze squeaked.

 

[Jonyna Si]

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As her blade pushed past him, she watched him reposition.

"You better not be calling your cat aunt fat, Braze. I'll get you if you are." She mock warned, as she repositioned herself. Admittedly, this wasn't her normal fighting style. She was much more aggressive than this. Much more acrobatic.

But this wasn't a duel to the death. It was a friendly spar.

With a twirl, she sheathed her blade, all in one motion drawing Liz in turn. The black blade had a bit more weight to it. She brought the sword up above her in a water stance, waiting for Braze to make the next move.

 

[Braze]

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A wry grin graced his features... " If I was gonna call you Fat I would have called you plump."
Rather than try to capitalize on the sudden shift between weapons, Braze hopped back and disengaged, watching her curiously. He was wary of the sharper swords, and that may have shown in the slight touch of hesitation that followed.

"You know… I have been considering taking up a basic training blade again…" he offered faintly, before lightly testing her guard with no real commitment behind the prodding pokes.

 

[Jonyna Si]

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"You're treading a thin line, Braze." Jonyna shot back, circling once more. "Blades have more heft to them. You can break a guard better with one than just a lightsaber."

With a flourish, she rushed forward to prove her point. Liz had a heck of heft behind her, and she put her own full 300 pounds behind the weight of the blade.